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AD20060509b.txt

In July 2005, eEye Digital Security notified Microsoft of a critical vulnerability in the Distributed Transaction Coordinator service included with Windows, a report which culminated in the release of the MS05-051 hotfix on October 11th. Following its release, we observed that the hotfix only mitigated the vulnerability, reducing its maximum potential to a denial-of-service attack against the MSDTC service but failing to treat the underlying flaw, and we again reported the finding to Microsoft.

 

You can download this advisory from the following link: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/46384/AD20060509b.txt

Source: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/46384/AD20060509b.txt.html

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